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Les dites cariatides Blu-ray Movie
The So-Called Caryatids
Criterion | 1984 | 12 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda explores the caryatids' ancient Greek roots while musing on their modern resonance.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
T'as de beaux escaliers, tu sais Blu-ray Movie
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know
Criterion | 1986 | 4 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda celebrates the Cinémathèque Française's 50th anniversary with a themed tribute to all that cinema can offer.
Short / Foreign
Daguerréotypes Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1976 | 78 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An affable, curious portrait of Agnès Varda's neighbors and acquaintances on Rue Daguerre, where she'd been living for decades.
Documentary / Foreign
Le lion volatil Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 2003 | 12 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A fortune-teller's apprentice crosses paths with a Catacombs security guard near the shape-shifting Lion of Belfort statue in Paris.
Romance / Short / Foreign
Le bonheur Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1965 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Les créatures Blu-ray Movie
The Creatures
Criterion | 1966 | 94 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A writer uses the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.
Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
Elsa la Rose Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1966 | 21 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Renowned poet couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet recount their courtship and marriage, re-enacting notable moments in the locations from their youth.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Uncle Yanco Blu-ray Movie
Oncle Yanco
Criterion | 1967 | 20 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda tracks down a Greek emigrant relative she's never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian life in Sausalito.
Documentary / Short
Black Panthers Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1968 | 29 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Agnès Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers cofounder Huey P. Newton.
Documentary / Short
Lions Love (...and Lies) Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1969 | 112 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In a rented house in the sun-soaked Hollywood Hills, a woman and two men delight in one another's bodies while musing on love, stardom, and politics.
Comedy / Drama
Mur Murs Blu-ray Movie
Mural Murals
Criterion | 1981 | 82 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city.
Documentary
Documenteur Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1981 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A lonely French woman faces growing despair while living with her son in Los Angeles.
Drama / Foreign
One Sings, the Other Doesn't Blu-ray Movie
L'une chante, l'autre pas
Criterion | 1977 | 121 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
When seventeen-year-old Pauline helps struggling mother of two Suzanne procure the money for an abortion, a deep bond forms between the two, one that endures over the course of more than a decade as each searches for her place in the world.
Drama / Foreign
Réponse de femmes Blu-ray Movie
Réponse de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe / Women Reply: Our Bodies, Our Sex
Criterion | 1975 | 8 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1975, a television station gave seven female filmmakers seven minutes to answer the question "What does it mean to be a woman?" Varda responded with this frank assemblage, examining how women are taking control over their bodies and lives.
Documentary / Short / Foreign
Plaisir d'amour en Iran Blu-ray Movie
The Pleasure of Love in Iran
Criterion | 1976 | 7 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young couple goes sightseeing in Iran.
Drama / Romance / Short / Foreign
Vagabond Blu-ray Movie
Sans toit ni loi
Criterion | 1985 | 105 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
Drama / Romance / Foreign
7 p., cuis., s. de b., ... (à saisir) Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1984 | 29 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A real estate agent tries to sell a seven room house with kitchen and bathroom to a young couple even though he had previously sold it to its former owners.
Short / Foreign
Jane B. par Agnès V. Blu-ray Movie
Jane B. for Agnès V.
Criterion | 1988 | 99 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A portrait of actress, singer, and model Jane Birkin.
Documentary / Drama / Fantasy / Foreign
Kung-Fu Master! Blu-ray Movie
Le petit amour
Criterion | 1988 | 79 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A lonely forty-year-old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the fourteen-year-old Julien, but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
Drama / Romance / Foreign
Jacquot de Nantes Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1991 | 118 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A portrait of filmmaker Jacques Demy during his formative years in 1940s France.
Biography / Drama / Foreign